Come Dec. 1, you can still buy the Happy Meal. But it doesn’t come with a toy. For that, you’ll have to pay an extra 10 cents.
Huh. That hardly seems to have solved the problem (though adults and
children purchasing unhealthy food can at least take solace that the 10
cents is going to Ronald McDonald House charities). But it actually gets
worse from here. Thanks to Supervisor Eric Mar’s much-ballyhooed new
law, parents browbeaten into supplementing their preteens’ Happy Meal
toy collections are now mandated to buy the Happy Meals.
Today and tomorrow mark the last days that put-upon parents can
satiate their youngsters by simply throwing down $2.18 for a Happy Meal
toy. But, thanks to the new law taking effect on Dec. 1, this is no
longer permitted. Now, in order to have the privilege of making a
10-cent charitable donation in exchange for the toy, you must
buy the Happy Meal. Hilariously, it appears Mar et al., in their desire
to keep McDonald’s from selling grease and fat to kids with the lure of a
toy have now actually incentivized the purchase of that grease and fat — when, beforehand, a put-upon parent could get out cheaper and healthier with just the damn toy.

Why, it's almost as if bureaucratic intervention served no purpose but to raise the price of a good and cause the very behavior it was supposed to solve!